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Lying down; prostrate; recumbent. The decumbent portraiture of a woman. Ashmole.

To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce.

eflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, concerning. The woman the deliberation is lost. Addison.

A young woman; a wench. [Obs.] Sweet doxies and dells. B. Jonson.

A woman who demands.

A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. [Colloq.] De Quincey.

and purposTennyson. The leaders of that assembly who withstood the designs of a besotted woman. Hallam. A . . . settled design upon another man's life. Locke. How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! Macaulay.

by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant.

A woman who dictates or commands. Earth's chief dictatress, ocean's mighty queen. Byron.

A woman who directs. Bp. Hurd.

Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.

ess and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay.

A woman disseizes.

Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively. His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne. Dryden. Some say the crozier, some say the distaff was too busy. Howell.

A woman who divines. Dryden.

The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (or thoro), "from bed board."

Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.

Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Garth.

The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.